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What is the right version of "partitions of unity implies vanishing sheaf cohomology"

There are several theorems I know of the form "Let $X$ be a locally ringed space obeying some condition like existence of partitions of unity. Let $E$ be a sheaf of $\mathcal{O}_X$ modules obeying ...
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Closed subschemes and pulling back the structure sheaf via the inclusion map

I would just like a clarification related to closed subschemes. If $(X,{\cal O}_X)$ is a locally ringed space and $A\subset X$ is any subset with the subspace topology then $i^{-1}{\cal O}_X$ will be ...
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Canonicity in split sequence in cotangent spaces

Let $X$ be a locally ringed space. We have for a point $p$ the exact sequence $$0\to \mathfrak{m}_p^2\to \mathfrak{m}_p\to \mathfrak{m}_p/\mathfrak{m}_p^2 \to 0$$ where $\mathfrak{m}_p$ is the maximal ...
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